One Wank After Another

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A blank assignment is a funny thing, isn't it? When you have it, you don't appreciate it, and when you miss it, it's gone.

Wednesday 10 December: Default deadline (9pm UTC)
Wednesday 17 December: Assignment deadline (9pm UTC)
Wednesday 24 December: Main collection works reveals (9pm UTC)
Thursday 25 December: Madness collection works reveals (9pm UTC)
Thursday 1 January: Author reveals, end of event (9pm UTC)

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Comments

Re: Yuletide crimes

[(Anonymous)]

None of those actually seem like crimes. If it ended in a plausibly open place, that's a story.

Of course I've seen some shockers that people defend as having an ambiguous ending, so obviously ymmv.

Re: Yuletide crimes

[(Anonymous)]

I just always hope my recip doesn't see the word count change by reveals! Sometimes it's significant.

Re: Yuletide crimes

[(Anonymous)]

If I saw that, I wouldn't think badly of my author. It's normal enough to come up with a new idea late in the piece, or to have two ideas for a story, one of which is lowkey and the other of which is big and epic. As long as I don't open the archive to a story that stops in the middle or is some sort of shitty frankenstein'd text, I'll assume the first version my author uploaded was a real story, just a shorter one.

Re: Yuletide crimes

[(Anonymous)]

The only time I've ever gotten annoyed at word count changing was when it went from about about 50 words above minimum word count to 5 words above for a story that was uploaded right at deadline - I've always seen the count go up, never down before. It didn't help that it also didn't really end, just went "it was all a dream."